All Our Desires
(Toutesnos envies)
A judge finds herself taking on loan sharks.
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Philippe Lioret; Writer: Emmanuel Courcol, Philippe Lioret, from the book by Emmanuel Carrère; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Marie Gillain, Amandine Dewasmes, Yannick Renier, Pascale Arbillot, Isabelle Renauld, Laure Duthilleul, Emmanuel Courcol, Anna-Bella Dreyfus, Thomas Boinet, Léna Crespo, Oriane Solomon, Eric Naggar, Jean-Pol Brissart, Nathalie Besançon)
Armed Hands
(Mains armées)
The lives of a police officer and his estranged narc daughter collide.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Pierre Jolivet; Writer: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël; Stars: Roschdy Zem, Leïla Bekhti, Marc Lavoine, Nicolas Bridet, Nicolas Marié, Nina Meurisse, Eric Bougnon, Marilyne Canto, Adrien Jolivet, Cyril Guei, Clémentine Poidatz, Simon-Pierre Boireau, Marc Robert, Bruno Debrandt, Gérard Meylan)
Bad Seeds
(Comme un Homme)
Starring real life father-son actors Charles Berling and Emile Berling as a
high school principal and hiswayward teenage son, Louis,who is involved
in a rather dubious extracurricular activity: the kidnapping of an English
teacher.
(Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France; Year: 2012; Director: Safy Nebbou; Writer: Safy Nebbou, Gilles Taurand, based on the novel by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac; Stars: Emile Berling, Charles Berling, Sarah Stern, Kévin Azaïs, Mireille Perrier, Patrick Bonnel, Pierre Lottin)
A Better Life
(Une vie meilleure)
An idealistic chef falls for a single mum... but the financial and social class odds are stacked against them.
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Cédric Kahn; Writer: Catherine Paillé, Cédric Kahn; Stars: Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga, Nicolas Abraham, François Favrat, Brigitte Sy, Fayçal Safi, Annabelle Lengronne, Valérie Even, Daria Kapralska, Yann Andrieu, Atika Taoualit, Arnaud Ducret, Serkan Oba)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Noémie Lvovsky; Writer: Maud Ameline, Noémie Lvovsky, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Florence Seyvos; Stars: Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla, India Hair, Julia Faure, Yolande Moreau, Michel Vuillermoz, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Vincent Lacoste, Micha Lescot, Anne Alvaro, Mathieu Amalric, Riad Sattouf, Elsa Amiel)